I want a quick self indulgent rant, then I might be over it, I hope.
Fundamentally, the very last thing I want to give the faintest tiniest infinitesimal quanta of a fuck about are a bunch of grotesquely rich, insanely powerful idiotic white tossers in America. I really really never want to hear anything about them, of their foul, frothing, pea brained, reductionist, pathetic views, ever again.
There is so much I do want to hear about instead. Desperately. Beauty, joy, real people with real lives living and supporting each other in a million amazing ways. Music, maths, science, astronomy, history, comedy. The gorgeous gamut of mad human diversity. Drench me with it.
But no.
Instead, I’m not only going to be bombarded with this inane, base, crass, asinine, predictable, pointless fucking drivel-some views, but I actually also need to bloody well care about this shit. Because these awful stupid fucks and their awful stupid actions have awful fucking consequence. Terrible and deep consequence that trashes and smashes and grinds ant all the beautify in the world.
So fuck them all, for that in particular.
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Holly shit, <somerandomtag contenteditable="true"/>?! WTF? This is a thing? That's amazing!
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/contenteditable
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Musing on a walk. Is there an argument that Copyleft, while a good ideal, wants to utilise and live with a capitalist system by having it contribute?
I think I it is preferable to either end, or at least subjugate capitalism to the commons.
Given that, is there a better model for open source things? Is free for non profit, reasonable pricing for profit making better?
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I still like Mac.
What I really wish Apple would build is a moderately priced “ApplePie 500” — an entry level Mac that’s just a keyboard (like the Raspberry Pi 500), with an M series processor based main board.
I mean, ideally with GPIO, but that could just be an external USBC thing.
Intended for kids / students, offices, etc. bring your own screen and peripherals.
Similar price to Mac Mini.
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Commuting by train again. As in the past, I’m finding it very difficult to get a high level overview of possible journeys / routes.
Apps and sites give you specific complete journeys, but I basically want to see the graph of choices with routes through it.
Ideally also like to see the live situation melded with the timetable. And to be able to plan from the train I’m currently travelling on, rather than from some station.
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Each time I've come across "Conventional Commits" the practice has struck me as "Here're some things that worked well with our specific house process. We're sure they're going to be great in yours too", that really aren't and just add a layer of noise.
It's really quite specific and doesn't seem a good match for most teams. And reading through even the summary of 5 points leaves me with questions.
[https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/]
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My best friend is an interpreter. Daily, she interprets for several new people who's health has been completely destroyed by hard physical work in the UK, just like Karolina here – https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/22/britain-working-class-pain-mental-health
Warehouse work, freezer work, delivery work, packing work. Almost always they have such agonising back or leg pain that they are bed ridden and just trying to get the support they are entitled to now that their ruined bodies can no longer toil.
You can very easily see a moral angle to this. But if you don't, if you're simply a hard nosed zero sum bastard about it, this is still a bewilderingly absurd strategy.
We're smashing people's able bodies to make greater profits for capitalists, and then the state supports the wrecked humanity with a thin gruel of NHS pain killers, 6 week cognitive behavioural training programs (from private suppliers) and a pitiful subsistence income of welfare payments.
This is very much modern Britain.
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I’m wondering: “You must learn, and we will use the violence of the state, including fines and imprisonment of you or your parents.” might not be a great basis for pedagogy?
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I like this a lot. This message is very much my jam. Or one of the jams I enjoy. https://coolguy.website/basic-html-competency-is-the-new-punk-folk-explosion/
I want tech democratised, accessible, open to all. And this is a fearless, optimistic and viable run at that.
If this all appeals to you, then you might enjoy this page that'll take through learning some HTML basics and getting a page on the web – https://htmlforpeople.com
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Slightly frustrated by a feeling that…
As a society, we could be far better at encouraging accessible creativity and creative play.
We're reasonably good at getting kids doing cutting and gluing and drawing and painting. These are nice accessible making mediums. That's great.
But I suspect there might be lots of mediums where easy accessible creative tools probably exist (or nearly exist), but aren't widely available to kids or other people wanting to try the medium out.
I'm thinking about music making, for example.
Loop pedals are probably a really awesome tool for exploring with music making, but not many homes have them, they're not generally optimised to easy use by children and easy to set up correctly?
I suspect this probably applied for other things too?
I think I'd enjoy a society that really prized encouraging creativity and very powerful but very accessible tools (where these can exist).
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Latest escalation in poppy wars is the villages here all have enormous plastic poppies on street lamps, like Christmas and Halloween celebrations. Personally, this seems remarkably crass, insensitive and offensive. I’ll remember, not celebrate, my own way.
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A different hypothesis would be fascism may result when a previously privileged significant minority loose their elevated status.
Sorry for my thoughts out loud. Trying to make some sense of the world.
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I think democracy can and should (and to some degree is) vastly more than electing representatives or "leaders" every few years. I think the UK's (and USA's) democracies are very far from ideal and are preconfigured to maintaining the order of power. Keeping and boosting the power of the powerful.
But I think the problem here is separate.
I think we're seeing what happens when a few people hold almost all the power, that power being wealth (+ a few other things – but mostly wealth).
Their power dilutes any democratic element to homeopathic levels.
We might still have elections, but substantive decision making, both inside legislative functions and outside in the world of business, or in communities, will be for the tiny powerful minority and their concern to remain that way.
That kind of power, that wealth disparity, dilutes and warps any democracy beyond useful effect.
I don't have a path from where we find ourselves to a place where power is more equally shared. I'm no expert in history, but I suspect its examples don't inspire a lot of hope of an easy journey.
I've seen lots of messages this morning suggesting we look out for each other. I think this is good advice.
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I'm looking for an (ideally) online synth app with a looper / sequencer with a bunch of nice sounds out of the box.
So basically, be able to improvise by mashing keys on my computer's qwerty keyboard, hear that, have it get recorded as events, and be able to hit some kind of "yeah, that was alright, loop that one" button.
And then combine other loops on top.
Emphasis on simple. Fine if it can go to complex places, but just those features out of the box would be a nice starting point?
Any ideas?
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My latest attempt to go back to Indy life is an App for musical instrument learners.
It helps them to tie "notation" (the clef thing with lines on it) to their instrument, and the sound of the notes.
Or you can use it to go from instrument to clef.
Or you can play a note on your instrument, and it'll show you the note you've hit.
You can give it a spin in Test Flight on iPhone here https://testflight.apple.com/join/1DnAKubd Currently supports Guitar, Violin and Cello.
I'd love to hear feedback / encouragement!
Thanks.
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A “fact” from octopus, apparently by the QI elves. I find this very very hard to credit. Unless typical microbes aren’t used much and have very crappy clock power management.
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Was fairly sure I knew what "Referential Transparency" was until I started reading the wikipedia page – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referential_transparency#:~:text=A%20linguistic%20construction%20is%20called,it%20is%20called%20referentially%20opaque.
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A computer Go question I've not found an answer for…
Machine Learning based Go computers have beaten human grand masters.
Have any yet managed to beat a grand master while handicapped? And with how much handicap?
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Xcode has a super weird bug where it becomes haunted by build errors.
The build will succeed, but with build errors shown, even days after you’ve fixed them.
If you click through to the error in a file, it'll disappear after a few moments and also be removed from the error list. But next time you rebuild it'll show up again.
Trying to exorcise it with clean / relaunch / restart (etc) seems to fail.
It’s really very odd. It's a level of broken that makes me wonder how anything it does can work at all.
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Blogs about technology, HTML, hand held game consoles and humane use of technology do not usually make me cry.
This one did. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/
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